A sweeping grand jury report has found credible allegations against more than 300 predator priests and identified over 1,000 victims in decades of child sex abuse covered up by the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. It was not immediately clear how many fresh charges could be brought following what the report called the most comprehensive to date about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church, investigating all but two of the US state's dioceses. Testimony from dozens of witnesses and half a million pages of internal church documents contained credible allegations against more than 300 predator priests and more than 1,000 child victims were identifiable, the report found yesterday. The real number was "in the thousands," the grand jury estimated, given those children whose records were lost or who were afraid to come forward. As a result of the church cover-up, almost every instance of abuse was too old to be prosecuted, but the report referenced at least two priests who had been ...

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Expressing concern over the growing number of sexual assault cases in shelter homes across India, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the central government to consider framing a child protection policy.The Centre told the three-judge bench, headed by Justice Madan Bhimrao Lokur that a detailed audit would be done on all shelter homes by October.The government informed the top court that social audit report by Ministry of Women and Child Development showed that 9382 child care shelter homes had been identified across the country last year. It added that 1575 children in various states are victims of sexual abuse.The apex court later raised questions about the identities of these child sexual victims. The court asked whether these children are being abused inside the homes or were they sent there because they were victims of abuse.The Supreme Court further grilled the central government and asked what has been done after these reports were filed.Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand,

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast Stockton University—which boasts a tree-studded, seemingly idyllic campus in Atlantic County, New Jersey—has left students exposed to a "violent environment of sexual assault," one of five federal lawsuits filed against the school this summer alleges. Over the past few months, the school—which has an enrollment of 9,500 students—has faced a litany of graphic allegations accompanied by photos of bruised victims. A fifth civil suit filed Sunday against the school claims that a young woman sought counseling on campus after she attempted suicide—and that the counselor's son eventually raped and bit her in a vicious assault that left her bruised and traumatized. She has demanded compensatory and punitive damages to be determined at a jury trial. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Brajesh Thakur, the prime accused in the Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal, was today shifted to a high security ward of a jail here, official sources said. He has been lodged in the Muzaffarpur jail since his arrest two months ago. Thakur, who suffers from a number of ailments, had been staying at the jail hospital and was shifted based on the report of a team of doctors which recently examined his health, the sources said. They said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is now likely to move the court with an application for seeking his custody for interrogation. Meanwhile, the CBI grilled Raju, Thakur's most trusted chauffeur, for close to five hours after which he was let off. Thakur headed the NGO Sankalp Seva Evam Vikas Samiti, which ran the shelter home where sexual abuse of a number of inmates has come to light. The NGO has been blacklisted and its registration cancelled by the Bihar government.